{"id":3629,"date":"2011-01-28T18:29:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T00:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/racism-is-at-home-on-the-right\/"},"modified":"2011-01-28T18:29:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T00:29:44","slug":"racism-is-at-home-on-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/racism-is-at-home-on-the-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Racism Is at Home on the Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow the link if you want to see a disgusting, stupid message from a bigot who serves Lush Limbaugh. Some will says this is just one guy; some will say this is made up by the Left or this guy is actually a marxist. Time and time again, the Right excuses or ignores the rabid racists in their midst, all the while prodding and coddling them. See for yourself by following the link. The racist imagery includes hints of dragging a lynched Obama behind a truck. Nice people, bedrock Amuricans. I\u2019m sure the Founders would have loved them. (The Founders of the KKK.) It\u2019s disgusting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/01\/27\/yee-limbaugh-death-threat\/\">ThinkProgress \u00bb California Lawmaker Receives Racist Death Threat Warning \u2018Rush Limbaugh Will Kick Your Ch-nk Ass\u2019<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Last week, California State Sen. Leland Yee (D) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local-beat\/Yee-Angry-Over-Limbaughs-Mocking--114276944.html\">called on<\/a> right-wing hate radio host Rush Limbaugh to apologize for mocking Chinese President Hu Jintao and the Chinese language by speaking gibberish \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/thenote\/2011\/01\/rush-limbaugh-mocks-chinese-president-hu-jintao.html\">ching chong chang<\/a>\u201d Chinese on his radio program. Yee, who is Chinese-American and chairs the state Senate Select Committee on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs, said Limbaugh owes the Chinese-American community an apology for his \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local-beat\/Yee-Angry-Over-Limbaughs-Mocking--114276944.html\">pointless and ugly offense<\/a>.\u201d Naturally, Limbaugh did not apologize, and instead <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/local\/crime\/2011\/01\/leland-yee-receives-racist-death-threat\">railed against Yee<\/a> the following day on his radio, calling him out repeatedly by name.<\/p>\n<p>Yee\u2019s call for civility did not sit well with one Limbaugh fan, who responded by sending several racist death threats to Yee\u2019s office this week. \u201cRush Limbaugh will <a href=\"http:\/\/sfist.com\/2011\/01\/26\/leland_yee_gets_racist_death_threat.php\">kick your chink ass<\/a> and expose you for the fool you are,\u201d the faxes read, threatening him with \u201cdeath\u201d (warning, contains racial expletives): <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/01\/27\/yee-limbaugh-death-threat\/\">ThinkProgress \u00bb California Lawmaker Receives Racist Death Threat Warning \u2018Rush Limbaugh Will Kick Your Ch-nk Ass\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow the link if you want to see a disgusting, stupid message from a bigot who serves Lush Limbaugh. Some will says this is just one guy; some will say this is made up by the Left or this guy is actually a marxist. Time and time again, the Right excuses or ignores the rabid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/racism-is-at-home-on-the-right\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Racism Is at Home on the Right<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}